Hammond v. Lester

*311Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

The question to he determined in this case is, whether the' fiscal court of Trigg County has the power to levy a tax in excess of fifty cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property of the county for any one year, exclusive of the tax for school purposes. On April 3, 1913, it levied a tax of thirty-five cents upon each $100.00 worth of taxable property in the county which it appropriated to the general fund for defraying the necessary expenses of the county government for the fiscal year, and, in addition, a tax of twenty-five cents…